Pharaoh Japanese Quail
A variety of the Japanese Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Laying
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About the Pharaoh Japanese Quail
Pharaoh is the wild-type Coturnix colour: an even speckled brown with straight pale vertical streaks down the back and barred wings. It is the one variety that sexes by feather alone — cocks carry a plain rusty-cinnamon breast while hens show a black-speckled, paler chest. As the original strain it is the most prolific and widely kept, the benchmark for the breed's six-week maturity and ~300-egg laying.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 280
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 17 days
- Broodiness
- None
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- East Asia
- Scientific name
- Coturnix japonica